August 2015 - Linda Gray Sexton

HERE COMES THE SUN

By Linda Gray Sexton | August 19, 2015 |

I have been away from home for two weeks, making a personal pilgrimage abroad, to Israel, for the wedding of my younger son. Our entire trip was exceptional, though I was more than glad to come home, put my feet up and pull my dogs onto my lap in a blanket of black and white.…

AT MY MOTHER’S KNEE

By Linda Gray Sexton | August 5, 2015 |

I was born into a home filled with shelves stuffed full of books. When I was a child, my mother, the poet Anne Sexton, frequently read aloud to me, and the first book I would remember well was a dog-eared blue volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, full of all its macabre horrors. As I reached…